Water-closet seat



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WATER. GLO$ET SEAT. I

.No. 543,180. Patented July 23 1895.

To all whom itmcty concern:

UNITED STATES PATENT Qrricm,

JOHN-C. FEBIGER, JR, on NEW ORLEANS, LOUISI NA.

"WATER-,0LOSET'JSIEAT.

' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent .No. 543,,Ql80,dated July 23, 1895. Application filed February 13,1896. seen no, 638,312. (No model.)

Be it known that I, J OEN CARSON FEBIGER,

J r., a citizen of the United States, residing at Newf Orleans, in the parish of .Orleans, State of Louisiana, haveinvented. a new and useful Improvement in Water-Closet Seats, of

which the following is a Specification, reference being had to the accompanying draw- 'ings, forming a part thereof, in which-- Figure 1 represents the top. of the seat and a fragment of the ,lid in closed position, and Fig. 2 shows a vertical section of the seat as Q it appears wi'th'th'e lid down.

The object of this invention is to provide.

awater-closet combining the properties of coinfortand cleanliness. Iattainthese objects by the combination illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

(1 represents the base-plate, comprisinga portion of the seat-,which is made'in one piece 'ofporc'ela-in, enameled cast-iron, nickel-plated brass, marble, stone, or anyimaterial impermeable to thesubstanoes thatam deposited .in closet-bowls in thein ordinary'use. This base-plate has the nsualfiseat-opening, and is recessed on its upper facbjfrom the front to,

a point at or near .the'frear' of said opening,

shoulders a being'forrned' between the front andrear portions ofthe-face. 5

1) "represents an lnsertion' or rim of wood,

, compressed paper, or other-materialthatis'a' poor conductor-{of 'hea't, --which coversgthat portion of the seat-which comes in contact with the body and 1imbs,=beingthe front and sides of vsaid opening.- "flhis non-conductive,

rim does not extend across the backof the opening, but leaves that composed wholly of ableto the substances that may be deposited .t-hernon-absorbent material. This is important, as the back of the seatf is the part most; liable to become soiled, and when composed, wholly of the impermeable material it can be easily cleaned, yet its position is such rela I :Etiie to.-'the body that itdoes not come incontact therewith. V v 1 o represents the lid or cover for the opening in the seat, which can be made of porcelain,- enameled cast-iron, nickel-plated brass,

marble, stone, or pther materialaimperme erably of the same material to match theportion, of the seat represented by a; t

(1 represents one of as many screws as will bene'cessary to fasten together securely and tightly the material represented by a and I). These screws pass through holes left for that purpose in the material forming'that part of the seatrepresented by 'a'.

e represents rubber bumpers, which may be attached to'lid and seat wherever required by expansion-screws set in holes cast ormolded in the material of which the seat and lid may be made. I Y

f represents a tail or fastening piece, which is made of same material of which portion of 65 seat represented by a is made. On the tail or fastening piece, which is attached to the seat, there will be holes cast or molded in such po* sition and such number asmay be necessary tofasten the tail piece to hinge -brackets,

wall-brackets,for other invention that may be called for, as the shape or class of closet bowl to be used may demand. These holesmay be cast or molded thronghthe tailpiece for bolts, or may only be castor molded through foruse of expansion-screws.

V Thetail-piece, seat, and cover may be of I any shape, but preferably of the shape shown in the accompanying drawingsnand may be 2v three-fourths (more or less) of the way- 1I.*'A water-closet seat consisting of a new a permanent nonconductive lining disposed on therccessed portion of said base plate.

plate. composed-of impermeable material and havi ngtlle usual opening, and apcrnranent rini com posed of non-conductive materialand disposed at the front and-,sidesof said opening, the bacl; sorbent.

. JNQ CQFEl-ZIGER, .Il-c'.

I Witnesses! p Y GEO. O. Pnnor,

BRYAN BLACK,

2. A water closet seat composed of a base of said opening being, non-ab 

